The Man With No Name

Talking To Dead Politicians

There are sure an awful lot of “I See Dead People” shows on tv these days. It’s either people talking to ghosts (Dead Zone, Ghost Whisperer, Medium) or people talking to spirits (a couple of other shows that I can’t remember, which may have been canceled), or people trying to divine the intent of dead people (Bones, CSI, CSI, CSI, or CSI).

The thing is, all the dead spirits are boring. It’s all like “Why did I die?” and “Who killed me?” and “How could this happen?” Whiners. They’re dead already. I think it’s pretty selfish.

There’s also a lot of political drama shows. West Wing. That Geena Davis show. E-Ring.

See, here’s what I think would be cool. A show about someone who talks to dead politicians. And all these dead politicians, they don’t care how they died, they just care about power. They are giving advice about how to run a campaign, or take this or that political action, and the protagonist gets more and more powerful by following their advice, except that it becomes menaningly clear that the dead politician ghosts might actually have their own agenda…. booga booga booga.